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Akeeba Release System

Introduction

Akeeba Release System (ARS) is a file repository / download system quite different than its competition. It is primarily focused on software dissemination, but can also be used as a generic download component. Its main differences to its competition are speed, stability, perfect URLs without a SEF component, generation of update streams, ease of use, Chameleon skinning and time saving features implemented along the board. We use it for our own downloads section. In fact, before its first public beta it had already served over a million downloads.

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Performance -
ARS is designed to handle massive amounts of data. Tested with hundreds of download items and hundreds of thousands of log records, it groks through this vast amount of data in a heartbeat. Intelligent caching makes it blazing fast.

Bootstrap -
ARS seamlessly integrates with the Boostrap styling upon which Joomla! 3 is standardised. It includes its own copy of Bootstrap, used only on Joomla! 2.5.

Control Freak -
Control who can download what. ARS integrates with Akeeba Subscriptions, PayPlans and Joomla! View Access Levels to fine-tune who can view and download anything.

Perfect Logs -
ARS will log who downloaded what and when, or even who tried but failed. IP addresses, HTTP referrers and country statistics are all logged and can be used to filter the log display. The Control Panel offers a bird's eye view of how well your downloads are doing.

Attention to detail -
Minute details make the big difference. From copied items defaulting to being unpublished and files you've already used being hidden from file selection drop-downs and from automatically naming and describing your files to zero-click file publishing, ARS has got you covered.

Updates galore -
ARS can automatically create update streams in multiple formats. INI format which can easily be used from any software. Joomla! XML format for extremely easy updates of the extensions you create.

Note: The software is free of charge, its support is not. You need a valid subscription to request support. However, its documentation, the troubleshooting wizard and searching the public tickets is free.

The extension does what is supposed to do. However, there are problems with Amazon Web Services Module which does not permit downloads using Android devices. Desktop devices work perfectly. Also, customer support is lacking. I have spent too much time arguing with customer support to fix simple design issues—no filter capability, visible portion of fields not wide enough, etc.

I use ARS to offer my own extension for download. The best thing about ARS is that it automatically creates proper update XML "files" so users can update my extensions using the Joomla one-click updater. Previously I had to manually create those files by copy-pasting a lot of stuff.

Now I just copy an existing item within ARS and change the version number, link it to the new file and done.

The only thing which could be improved is the editor button to select an ARS item which doesn't work well as soon as you apply filters.

I'm using all Akeeba extensions and Akeeba is an excellent company who build great, well thought out and reliable extensions.

I'm using Akeeba Release System for almost a year now and it's really a MAGNIFICENT download system!

Nicholas always searches for ways to automate cumbersome activities. A great example of that is bleeding edge, which automatically detects your uploaded downloads and changelog. Just FTP your download and refresh the front-end and you're done!

Amazon S3 and Akeeba Live Update support are also topnotch.

Support is as always very fast, friendly and of high quality. If you encounter an issue (which was rare during +/- a year of intensive use), it'll be solved within minutes.

Component would not add items for download as it could not recognize the categories.... Also items sometimes loaded and sometimes didn't. Inconsistent and therefore unusable. Even downgraded to test releases but same thing. Rather than continue to probe this product just moving on to something else that is more user friendly.

Owner's reply:
I suppose that you configured something wrong. A similar case last week ended up being the user using backslashes instead of forward slashes. I'm quite sure you did a similar misconfiguration.

As a matter of fact, if there were bugs so severe as what you allege how can you explain that ARS is what I'm using on AkeebaBackup.com since July 2010 to serve over 8 million (8,000,000) downloads to all of my extensions?

Akeeba Backup

Free |
Site Security |
Akeeba Ltd

2.53

Score:

100

929 reviews

Akeeba Backup Core is the successor to the now famous JoomlaPack component. In a nutshell, Akeeba Backup Core is an open-source backup component for the Joomla! CMS, quite a bit different than its competition. Its mission is simple: create a site backup that can be restored on any Joomla!-capable server. Its possibilities: endless. It creates a full backup of your site in a single archive. The archive contains all the files, a database snapshot and an installer similar in function to the standard Joomla! installer. The backup and restore process is AJAX powered to avoid server timeouts, even with huge sites. Alternatively, you can make a backup of only your database, or only your files. If you want a reliable, easy to use, open source backup solution for your Joomla! site, try it out.
Akeeba Backup has won the prestigious Administrator Only Extension J.O.S.C.A.R. Award at J and Beyond 2010. Download it for free to find out why.
Latest Joomla! 2.5/3.x only. We have older versions for past Joomla! 1.5/1.6/1.7/2.5/3.x versions on our site.
Features:
It configures itself for optimal operation with your site. Just click on Configuration Wizard.
One click backup.
AJAX powered backup (site and database, database only, files only or incremental files only backup)
The fastest native PHP backup engine.
Choose between standard ZIP or highly efficient JPA archive format
able to exclude specific files, folders
able to exclude specific database tables or their contents
Unattended backup mode (CRON job scheduling), fully compatible with Webcron.org
AJAX powered site restoration
"Kickstart" restore: restore without unpacking backup
Move your site between hosts without downloading/uploading anything (using the DirectFTP backup engine)
Archives can be restored on any host. Useful for transferring your site between subdomains/hosts or even to/from your local testing server (XAMPP, WAMPServer, MAMP, Zend Server, etc).
and much much more!
Do not miss out the complimentary companion software (Akeeba Kickstart and Akeeba eXtract Wizard) which are available free of charge from our site. They make working with Akeeba Backup a breeze.
Note: The software is free of charge, its support is not. You need a valid subscription to request support. Its documentation, the troubleshooting wizard and searching the public tickets is free.
*** IF YOU CAN'T FIND HOW TO ENABLE A FEATURE LISTED HERE, PLEASE READ THE (FREE) DOCUMENTATION! ***

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Admin Tools

Free |
Site Security |
Akeeba Ltd

2.53

Score:

100

180 reviews

Admin Tools is a true Swiss Army knife for your site. Our freely available Admin Tools Core will detect, notify you about and install new Joomla! releases, fix your files' and directories' permissions, protect your administrator directory with a password, change your database prefix, set a secure Super Administrator ID, migrate links pointing to your old domain on-the-fly and perform database maintenance, all with a single click.
Written and maintained by the same developer as Akeeba Backup and the Joomla! updater component of Joomla! 2.5.4 and later.
Note: a commercial edition (Admin Tools Professional) with extra security-oriented features is also available from our site for a fee. This listing is about the free version, Admin Tools Core.
Note 2: The software is free of charge, its support is not. You need a subscription to request support. However, its documentation, the troubleshooting wizard and searching the public tickets is free.

K2 Links for Advanced Link

Free |
JCE extensions |
Akeeba Ltd

2.53

Score:

96

12 reviews

Brought to you by Akeeba Backup's lead developer, the K2 Links for Advanced Link allows you to use JCE's advanced link feature in order to seamlessly link to K2 content items. A short list of features:
- Integrates into JCE's Advanced Link (AdvLink) window - that's what you get with the "Insert Link..." command you get with the right-click popup or the link icon with green cross on JCE's toolbar ;)
- You can toggle it on/off for certain users, just like any other AdvLink extension.
- Displays K2 categories as a drill-down tree, no limits on level depth.
- If a K2 category contains not only items but children categories too, it displays both.
- Intelligently includes the correct Itemid on linked items. Don't let Google think you've got duplicate content on your site, right?
- Link to K2 Tags (NEW!)
- View and link to K2 items belonging to a specific K2 tag (NEW!)
IMPORTANT: Version 2.x is only compatible with JCE 2.x. The previous version of the plugin (1.0) for JCE 1.5.x is no longer supported.